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Have been very much inspired by the work on nodejs. For those of you who don’t know, nodejs is a basically a system to do Evented I/O using Google’s V8 Javascript engine.
One such application of nodejs is the development of servers both HTTP or socket based that doesn’t require the spinning up of threads to handle connections and/or network events. Callbacks are assigned to events and when those events happen, the callbacks are ran. No threads, easy peasey, low overheads, etc.
Currently there are 2 ways to do NSURLRequests. You can either wrap it around a thread and execute the operation synchronously or implement its delegate methods and have it run within the runloop.
JOURLRequest is an encapsulation of the NSURLRequest and its delegate methods to provide for a way to easily implement run loop based event-ed NSURLRequests.
